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Advancing Innovation and Sustainable Outcomes in International Graduate EducationA book edited by Professor Mohan R. Gurubatham and Professor Geoffey Alan Williams (the Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management Graduate School of Business at Help University)

IntroductionThe book will 1st outline the theme of the accelerating and parallel impacts of change drivers in 21st century with globalization. The drivers being technology, the 4th Industrial Revolution and future skill sets, sustainability, the need for higher order and critical thinking, the shifting values of millennials concerning the need for new approaches to education and attitudes to work, challenges to cultural integrity demanded by adaptation for progress, the need for developing cognitive and emotional intelligence with fluid intelligence enabling broad interdisciplinary thinking and wisdom, and the vision for conflict resolution, cooperation and world peace.

The 2nd theme will exposit that these drivers will demand a new approach to learning that directly impacts the teaching learning process. The allocation of resources in international universities to adopt and institutionalize solutions must be prioritized above obsolete or wasteful practices. This theme with lessons learned from previous attempts of teaching and learning such as through MOOCS for example will be critically evaluated from research undertaken by the co-editor of this book; Professor Geoffrey Williams of the Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management Graduate School of Business at Help University. Design features that will enhance commitment and engagement via blended learning will be recommended by co-editor Professor Mohan Gurubatham from the short comings found in the research.

The 3rd theme will point to modern education that is multicultural and yet deeply appreciates and is committed to cultural integrity. Underpinning the theme and chapters of this book, is the need for ecosystemic thinking for sustainability framed from consciousness based education involving empirically published measurable improvements in peer reviewed and funded research to raise fluid intelligence and learning via metacognitive methods provided by faculty from colleagues in the USA. These colleagues are currently involved in international education with partner universities in Asia. The approach in this 3rd theme further points to a spiritual interconnectedness in the learners’ awareness of the essential unity in the diversity of their environment that brings meaning to the age old ideal and vision of a university as unifying the diversity of a competition of ideas.

· stimulate new research into blended learning for higher order outcomes and engagement.

· stimulate innovative and proven best practices that unfold the full potential of learners in international settings.

· prioritize the need for the allocation of resources in the scaling of high value outcome-evidence based learning.

· scientifically understand consciousness and metacognition, meditation such as Transcendental Meditation based models of awareness, as default states, and learning for higher value added outcomes, creativity and prosocial behavior for sustainability.

· Evaluating the empirical and subjective pre-paradigm state of awareness for spiritual and interconnected sustainability.

· Putting it all altogether in the next steps in strategy and policy.

Submission ProcedureResearchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 15, 2019, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by Jun 14, 2019 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by Sep 12, 2019, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Advancing Innovation and Sustainable Outcomes in International Graduate Education. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery®TM online submission manager.

PublisherThis book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in mid 2020.